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The Present State Examination: Experiences with Xhosa-speaking Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. S. Gillis ,
O. Ben-Arie ,
R. Elk  and
A. Teggin
L. S. Gillis
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town
O. Ben-Arie
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town
R. Elk
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town
A. Teggin
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town
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Summary

Language, conceptual, and cultural factors are discussed in relation to a Xhosa translation of the Present State Examination which was administered to a series of 120 consecutive new admissions to a psychiatric hospital.

The experiential events of psychiatric disturbance as defined by the PSE exist in Xhosa-speaking patients and it is a valid instrument.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 141 , Issue 2 , August 1982 , pp. 143 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

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